Statement respecting the Earl of Selkirk's Settlement of Kildonan ...

'Si:APPENDIX.xlvii, j.p. sLieutenant-Colonel M'Kay told Kawtawabetay thathewas happy to find that he had not taken the advice ofthose who wanted to lead him astray, but was glad thathe had behaved liimselt" as an obedient child in refusingto take any part with tiieni, and hoped he and hispeople would continue in being friendly with all theEnglish merchants, traders, and all the settlers, whowere all his Great Father's white children.A true Extract, -act, >JOHN ASKINm[V. ]Deposition of P. C. Pambrun,Before me, Thomas Earl of Selkirk, one of hisMajesty's justices, assigned to keep the peace in thewestern district of Upper Canada, appeared, PierreChrisologue Pambrun, who, being duly sworn on theHoly Evangelists, deposes, that in the month of Aprillast, he was sent to the trading post of the Hudson'sBay Company, at Qui Appelle, by order of the deceasedGovernor Semplcp from whom the deponent received aletter of instructions, a copy of which he has attested asrelation hereto*.—That when he arrived, he found thatat the fort or trading post of the North-West Company,near the same place, were assembled, a great number ofthe men, commonly called Brules, Metifs, or half-breeds,viz, the bastard sons of Indian concubines, kept by thepartners or servants of the North-West Company ; thatthese people had been collected from a great distance,* Tiio copy of these Instructions has not been received with thisLeposition.